Good deeds never go unpunished.
E. B. WHITE
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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